What Diet to take with Yoga
Yogic Diet
Food plays a very important role in exciting the senses and passions. A
yogi should be
very careful in the selection of articles of diet of Sattvic nature in
the beginning of his yoga
period. Later on drastic dietetic restrictions can be removed. Havis
Annam, which is a mixture of
boiled white rice and oil, is very good to Yogic practices. When
white rice is boiled with
oil, white sugar and milk, it is called Cheru. This is a combination is
very much suitable for yogis.
Milk is a full food by itself, containing the different nutritive
constituents, fats, vitamins and proteins,
carbohydrates, etc., in well-balanced proportions. It leaves very little
residue in the bowels. This is
an ideal food for Yogis during yoga practice. Fresh milk should be
boiled before being used
The process of medium boiling is that the milk should be immediately
removed from the fire, as
soon as the boiling point is reached. Too much boiling destroys very
valuable nutritious items in milk
A fruit diet exercises a calm, soothing influence on the mind and body
and is very much desirable
diet for Yogis. This is a natural form of diet. Bananas, grapes, sweet
oranges, apples and
pomegranates are best fruits. Bananas are very nutritious. Lemons
possess antiscorbutic
properties and act as restoratives to blood. Fruit juices contains a form
of nutritive principle, Vitamin
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